Summary and Analysis of Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Women, Science, Biography & Autobiography, Science & Technology, Study Aids, Book Notes
ISBN: 9781504046374
Google: 63C9DgAAQBAJ
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2017-05-02T22:15:24+00:00

Timeline

1939: The GALCIT Rocket Research Project (a.k.a. the Suicide Squad) receives its first $1,000 grant from the National Academy of Sciences.

1940: The GALCIT Rocket Research Project receives a $10,000 grant from the Army Air Corps and changes its name to the Air Corps Jet Propulsion Research Project (and later becomes the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, or JPL).

August 12, 1941: JPL launches their first rocket plane, executing the first American rocket-powered plane flight.

December 7, 1941: Japan attacks Pearl Harbor and British Hong Kong.

1942: Members of the former Suicide Squad and JPL start Aerojet.

December 1942: JPL succeeds in launching the Douglas A-20A bomber using rockets.

1944: Theodore von Kármán leaves JPL to start Scientific Advisory Group for the air force; Frank Malina takes over as JPL’s acting director.

October 1945: The Corporal missile prototype flies up forty miles, a record-breaking altitude.

1946: Helen Yee Ling Chow moves to Indiana to attend Notre Dame.

May 22, 1947: The first Corporal missile is tested; it reaches a height of 129,000 feet and travels sixty miles away.

February 24, 1949: Bumper WAC is launched and reaches a record velocity of 5,150 mph and leaves the atmosphere to travel 242 miles high.

March 1952: Janez Lawson is hired to be a computer at JPL.

1953: Helen moves to Pasadena, California.

August 9, 1955: The US Department of Defense chooses the Navy’s satellite design, Project Vanguard, over JPL’s.

1956: The Sergeant, JPL’s last missile project, is completed and sent to Korea.

September 19, 1956: First launch of Jupiter-C in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

July 1957–December 1958: Timespan for the International Geophysical Year (IGY), an international cooperative study of Earth.

May 1957: The second Jupiter-C launch falters; it falls into ocean and gets torn apart by sharks.

August 8, 1957: The third Jupiter-C is launched, and its nose cone survives re-entry into the atmosphere.

October 4, 1957: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik while holding an IGY conference cocktail party at the Russian embassy in Washington, DC.

November 1957: The USSR launches Sputnik 2. It contains Geiger counters and spectrometers to measure solar radiation and cosmic rays, as well as a dog named Laika, the first living creature in space.

December 6, 1957: Vanguard launches during a live broadcast and explodes on the launch pad.

January 30, 1958: Sue Finley starts working at JPL.

January 31, 1958: JPL’s first satellite, Explorer, is launched successfully.

February 5, 1958: The second Vanguard launch fails.

March 17, 1958: The Vanguard satellite is finally launched successfully.

July 29, 1958: President Eisenhower establishes NASA.

January 2, 1959: Luna 1, a Soviet satellite, passes within four thousand miles of the moon before entering the Sun’s orbit.

March 3, 1959: Pioneer 4 is launched successfully and passes by the moon.

1959: Macie retires, and Barbara takes her place as computer supervisor.

September 1959: Luna 2 crash-lands on the moon.

1960: IBM 1620, named Cora by Mission Design, joins the lab.

April 12, 1961: Yuri Gagarin is the first human to reach space.

May 5, 1961: Alan Shepard is launched in the Freedom 7 capsule to 116 miles above Earth, but doesn’t go into orbit.

August 23, 1961: The first Ranger launches from Cape Canaveral and successfully enters

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